Josh Clark

So they started going around to oil companies, and they finally found one, actually, Petroleum Geo Services.

And PGS said, sure, we'll share a little bit of our undersea mapping with you.

And they gave them data for 23,000 square kilometers of the North Sea.

And Vincent Gaffney fainted.

But luckily, Simon Fitch was there to catch him.

And that was just that was what Simon Fitch is all about.

He's always there to catch you.

Yeah, and this was really groundbreaking for underwater archaeology because underwater archaeology at this point was like dive down in scuba gear, hope you find something.

There were some techniques where you can actually kind of excavate something that's close to the surface.

They have big vacuums that they go through the silt that's taken up.

on board the ship above.

So it's not like it was just completely just a concept at the time, but this really opened it up, this underwater mapping.

But Simon Fitch and Vincent Gaffney found out these maps are, the resolution's not enough to be like, there's a site, there's a site, a look that skeleton's waving at us, let's go investigate there.

But it was enough to give them a big picture of Doggerland.

And it was very clear that this was not just some land bridge.

This was, yeah, again, like essentially a new country that they had discovered under the sea.

And they were able to match that with existing finds.

Yeah.

Like they're like, well, there's this mastodon skull found over here.

And that makes sense that it would be here.